Forgiveness.

"Your sins are forgiven."

Every week we hear these Words of Assurance in church.

So what of shame and damnation?

These things have no place in the Church.

Yet conservative Christians delight in shaming and damning people, especially LGBT+ people.

They judge people and condemn them in the name of God.

Jesus said to forgive seven times seventy.

But his followers condemn.

  

Conservatives use condemnation and damnation as weapons in the Culture Wars.

And Generation X judge the Hippies in their war against that generation.

These things were in fact designed by Ronald Reagan who said: "Christianity contains unconventional weapons."

He instructed Christians and Generation X to damn Hippies and Gays in his war against the Left.

      

And these things were justified by Pope John Paul II - the conservative anti-communist Pope.

So what happened to "Your sins are forgiven"?

The answer is that conservatives and Generation X and their descendants are wrong - Ronald Reagan was wrong!

God forgives.

And the war is over.

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